Finally Tendulkar scores century of centuries

Although it took one whole year and a few more days, the Little Master Sachin Tendulkar finally came through to score his 100^th hundred.

Sachin Tendulkar achieved the milestone during India’s encounter with Bangladesh in the Asia Cup, on Friday, March 16. He already holds the record for most centuries and runs in One Day Internationals (ODI).

He was also the first batsman to score a double-hundred in ODIs. Tendulkar made both his ODI and Test debut against Pakistan in 1989.

Of his 100 international centuries, the master blaster has scored 51 in Tests and 49 short-over games. It took Sachin 188 Tests and 462 ODIs to get to this landmark achievement.

It has been a classic Sachin innings so far; easy strokes as he has piled on the runs. The little master took on the opponent bowling with confidence and reached the milestone using 138 balls and smashing 10 boundaries including a six.

At the same time, he also became the first batsman to hit over 2,000 boundaries in limited-over game.

The buzz around Sachin’s record century of centuries had begun as early as the World Cup last year, but despite numerous chances, he was unable to do so. He opted to play the Asia Cup after a less than average outing in the CB Series in Australia.

Tendulkar lastly marked century during the World Cup against South Africa on March 12, 2011.  It took him 34 innings; include thirteen ODI innings, to get to his most awaited success. The stadium of Mirpur, Bangladesh got lucky that the little master chose to play his 462^nd ODI here.

Today, he made use of both singles and the occasional boundary to pulverize the opponent players.

The bowling was not extra-ordinary and the ground fielding was equally ordinary as the home crowd battled with mixed emotions – watching a master at work with his willow and looking at the host team suffering on the field.

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Posted by Faisal Farooq on Mar 16 2012. Filed under Latest News, Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.